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Deckardv Puzzle Night 7 Recap + Experience

If I had to be honest, the absence of these might've been one of the reasons on why I haven't been posting on here.

For a recap, these puzzle nights are hosted on Deckardv's puzzle server. I participated and placed... 10th out of 27 participants, which was in the "blue" zone. (you can see my post on Puzzle Night 3 to see the zone colors and placements). My goal was the "purple" zone, and I didn't achieve that goal... again, partially because of the lack of puzzle nights.

This night had a few more common puzzle genres seen in these puzzle nights.

Puzzle 1: Star Battle \ Time: 6:28 \ Placement: 11th

The first puzzle was a moderate star battle (slightly harder than GAPP-level). A funny thing... my puzz.link UI was stuck in Japanese, but I still knew where most of the buttons were. I used quite a bit of bifurcation, though.

Puzzle 2: Nurikabe \ Time: 1:51 \ Placement: 5th

I only got this time because I used uniqueness in my solving process. 💀

That's about it.

Puzzle 3: Word Snakes \ Time: 9:41 \ Placement: 14th

This was a variant Word Snakes where the words were different lengths, ranging from 2-13 letters. I did quite a bit of bifurcation + regex here, and it might've cost me some time.

Puzzle 4: Fitting In \ Time: 6:41 \ Placement: 21st

I found most of the possible piece locations at first, but couldn't find a way to fit 3 pieces in a large area. After finding another location for a piece in the board, it was smooth sailing after that.

Puzzle 5: Transformations \ Time: 5:45 \ Placement: 13th

This puzzle involves word transformations where you have to find the rules on how words are transformed into another. Here, I was struck on one of the rules, but after getting that, it was smooth sailing.

Practice Puzzles

Yeah, I was lazy. But to be fair, this theme doesn't really warrant practice puzzles in my opinion

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